Wagner Vases

A large and impressive, fine quality Vienna porcelain charger, having a hand-painted scene depicting Kaiser Karl V in Antwerp. Vienna porcelain mark t...

A fine, signed Art Nouveau porcelain cabinet plate. By Royal Vienna. Signed Wagner to the lower right. With a hand painted depiction of Ruth to the center surrounded by a blue & green border richly decorated with platinum, raised gold, & rich gilding. Marked to the reverse with a blue underglaze Royal Vienna beehive...

Antique painted and gilt royal Vienna porcelain plate Austrian, late 19th century Dimensions: Height 2.5cm, diameter 24cm Of circular...

A monumental Royal Vienna Iridescent porcelain portrait vase and cover, Wagner, circa 1880. This Royal Vienna Urn features an exceptional iridescent ...

19th century German large blue and white Meissen porcelain vase with gilt trim and scroll handles.

This refined Mid Century Modern porcelain vase was realized by the esteemed maker Alka Kunst in Germany circa 1960. It features a cylindrical body in white ...

This magnificent large Royal Vienna porcelain covered urn is Surmounted by domed cover with acorn finial and flanked by satyr mask handles, centered by a panel depicting scenes of th...

An important and extremely large pair of Magenta Ground Vienna Porcelain Exhibition vases. Austrian, circa 1900. Each vase with blue underglazed ‘Beehive’ mark to interior of neck. Each vase is finely painted with classical scenes to the front and allegorical scenes to the back on a rich magenta ground with gilt foliate decoration. The vases are mounted by extraordinary gilt handles headed by winged female masks to the sides and grotesque masks to the shoulders. The spreading necks decorated with Greek key decoration are surmounted by domed covers and the vases are raised on baluster form supports put down on drum bases finely painted with panels stylised arabesque. The Vienna Porcelain Manufactory was founded in 1718 only eight years after Johann Friedrich Bottger and Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus had succeeded in unearthing the secret of Porcelain Manufacture for August the Strong, Elector of Saxony. On May 25, 1718, Emperor Karl VI signed a "special privilege" awarding Claudius Innocentius du Paquier the exclusive right to produce porcelain in the Austrian crown lands. Production being almost exclusively for the imperial household and the court nobility. During the rococo era, Empress Maria Theresia placed the company under imperial ownership and it was during this period that the manufactory began to produce the famous rococo genre scenes after Watteau. Under the management of Conrad Sorgel von Sorgenthal, the Vienna Porcelain Manufactory achieved an international reputation for its neo-classical style. After the wars with France brought the manufactory to the brink of ruin, the Vienna Congress at the beginning of the Nineteenth Century gave porcelain from Vienna a renewed upswing. Many important personalities of the time, including Czar Alexander I of Russia...

Large antique (19th to early 20th century) Royal Vienna porcelain vase with cover (urn) of oval shape is finely gilt and hand-painted painted, depicting interior family scenes on eac...

A Great Quality Late 19th Century French Gilt Bronze Mounted Chinese Porcelain Vase Decorated with birds and floral arran...

Antique 19th century Royal Vienna Belle époque Porcelain moon flask. This extraordinary Royal Vienna porcelain moon flask is magnificent deco...

Porcelain and gilt bronze vase signed Sèvres, France, late 19th century.